This Top House Democrat Flew to Kansas to Visit an Illegal Alien Who Bit an Officer

September 16, 2026 Cat2, Illegal Immigration
Gdisalvo via shutterstock

Laken Riley is dead because Democrats refused to keep her killer in custody.

Now three Democrat members of Congress are spending your tax dollars visiting ICE detention facilities to hold coffee dates with the criminals who replaced her.

And this top House Democrat flew to Kansas to visit an illegal alien who bit an officer.

ICE Told America Exactly Who Democrats Went to Visit

ICE didn't let this one slide.

After Reps. Analilia Mejia and Rob Menendez of New Jersey visited Delaney Hall detention facility, and Moore traveled to Leavenworth, Kansas – 580 miles from her Wisconsin district – ICE posted exactly who these lawmakers requested face time with.

The list included illegal aliens with active orders of removal and illegal aliens flagged as flight risks by immigration judges.

One illegal alien overstayed her tourist visa and then bit an officer while in detention.

Another was detained under the Laken Riley Act – the law Trump signed in honor of the 22-year-old nursing student murdered in broad daylight by a Venezuelan illegal alien who had been arrested and released by Biden's open-border machine.

That law mandates detention without bail for non-citizens arrested for theft, burglary, shoplifting, assaulting a law enforcement officer, or any crime resulting in death or serious bodily injury.

These are the people Moore called "not criminals."

Moore Called Them Constituents – Black's Law Dictionary Disagrees

Moore didn't just visit these detainees.

She claimed them.

"Constituents, yes constituents, are being detained all over the country," Moore's spokesperson told the Washington Examiner, "and she will continue advocating for them, wherever they are."

Black's Law Dictionary ties constituency directly to voter eligibility.

Imprisoned illegal aliens with deportation orders don't vote – or at least they shouldn't.

Moore's actual constituents live in Wisconsin's 4th Congressional District, 580 miles away, watching their congresswoman spend her time and their money fighting for the people ICE is removing from American streets.

Democrats Have Been Running This Play for Over a Year

This isn't a one-off story about three rogue lawmakers.

Democrats have been staging these detention visits systematically since Trump's second term began.

In November 2025, twelve House Democrats sued the Trump administration after being blocked from unannounced ICE facility visits.

A federal judge sided with them, and the visits accelerated.

By February 2026, Michigan Democrats were touring ICE facilities and calling for Kristi Noem's impeachment.

By April 2026, California Democrats were walking Otay Mesa's halls and holding press conferences outside.

Every visit follows the same script: fly in, film a video, claim the detainees are harmless, call ICE a profit machine, demand the cameras roll.

Meanwhile, the Laken Riley Act has produced over 17,500 arrests of criminal illegal aliens in Trump's second term alone – people accused of rape, child sex crimes, child abuse, attempted murder, and more.

Democrats aren't visiting those victims.

They're visiting the people who hurt them.

Democrats are building a legal and media infrastructure around these visits – lawsuits to guarantee unannounced facility access, cameras at every door, press releases timed for the evening news.

The goal is to make ICE detention politically toxic enough that Republicans blink on funding in the next budget fight.

They've run this play before – on Gitmo, on family separation, on every immigration enforcement tool that actually worked – and they'll run it until someone makes them pay a price at the ballot box.

Wisconsin's 4th District voters get to decide in November whether they want a congresswoman who travels to Kansas to fight for people with deportation orders or one who shows up for them.

Democrats have chosen a side.

And it isn't America's.

Sources:

  • "Congresswoman Gwen Moore Visits Midwest Regional Reception to Conduct Welfare Check on Constituents," U.S. Rep. Gwen Moore Press Release, September 10, 2026.
  • "Exclusive: More than 17,500 illegal immigrants arrested under Laken Riley Act in Trump's second term," Fox News Digital, 2025.
  • "Donald Trump Signs Laken Riley Act into Law During Emotional Ceremony," Megyn Kelly, January 30, 2025.
  • "Democrats Use District Work Period to Conduct Oversight of ICE Detention Centers," Rep. Pramila Jayapal Press Release, June 3, 2025.
  • U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement, Official Statement on Congressional Detention Visits, September 2026.